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Dvar Torah from Rabbi Moshe Revah
Rosh HaYeshiva, HTC
Lichvod the Yeshiva Family:
What a zchus, to be part of the new beginning
of a new century with the Yeshiva!
It’s also an incredible honor to be part of a
dinner honoring the Ish HaEshkolos, Harav
Chaim Twerski shlit”a, a towering talmid
chacham whose knowledge of every facet
of Torah is breathtaking. Not a day goes by
in Yeshiva that he is not discussing a new
insight he has come up with on the sugya, and not only the sugya his
shiur is currently learning; Rav Twerski’s prowess extends to all far-flung
matters of Halacha, other gemaros or the weekly sedra. Rabbi Twerski
will uncover a deeper clarity, one of the many ways to look at the Torah
and expound on it in the most astounding way. Very often Rabbi Twerski
will join a discussion in the Kollel on a sugya he has not learned in 30
years and be part of the conversation as if he was currently involved
in it. The Yeshiva will be losing a paradigm of a talmid chacham and
his retirement is certainly bittersweet for us. We are honored to join
the Chicago community in wishing him and his Rebbetzin a tzeischem
l’shalom in their move to be mekayim the mitzvah and lifelong dream of
Yishuv Eretz Yisrael, and we wish them hatzlacha gedolah in all of their
continued avodas Hashem there and in this new chapter of their life
b’artzeinu hakedosha.
The Gemara in Chagigah (9b) states that there is no comparison between
someone who reviews his Gemara one hundred times and someone who
reviews it one hundred and one times! The obvious question is: what can
the difference really be between someone who reviews it an extra time
when he has already reviewed it so many times?
The Noda BeYehuda explains that the first 100 times someone reviews
something he is gaining each time. After that, if he is reviewing it again, he
is reviewing simply because he loves it; he loves the material, he loves the
Torah and he loves Hashem! This is the exponential difference between
someone who reviews the extra time. It is now a service of love!
Other Meforshim (including the Chofetz Chaim and Michtav Me’Eliyahu)